WHAT’S BECOME OF WARING (236 pp.) —Anthony Powell—Little, Brown ($4). Few young authors would let a character say without irony or bitterness: “Only in the publishing business is authorship considered ...
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VENICE (Reuters) - After the Clooney wedding and the film festival, Venice played host at the weekend to a gathering concerned more with literature than glitz: the annual conference of the Anthony ...
As his 12-volume series of novels, “A Dance to the Music of Time” — a postwar landmark, a comedy of manners published between 1951 and 1975 — gave way to innumerable volumes of letters and diaries and ...
Authorized biographer Hilary Spurling begins with the assumption that Anthony Powell (1905-2000) deserves his reputation as the English Proust. The work supposed to justify the comparison is Powell’s ...
THE MILITARY PHILOSOPHERS by Anthony Powell. 244 pages. Little, Brown. $4.95. Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time, a serial novel issued in fairly regular installments for more than 18 years ...